TV Talk!

[Kakariko Kid]

Does anyone watch Redneck Island? I haven't yet, but my dad tells me that a guy that works for him has applied to be on the show and has had two calls about still being in consideration to be on it. Coincidentally, he's the same guy running the softball team I play tournaments for, occasionally.

[Wastelander]

Like I said in another thread, I started watching 24. I have mixed feelings about it. I went in expecting this great show with great characters and cliffhangers that made you want to watch the next episode right away. I ended Day 1 with the thoughts of most of the characters are there for cannon fodder, Jack is not the bad ass Main charicter that everyone says he is, the plot goes in circles to the point that I thought they should have ended the season about 5 times before the real end, and the episodes don't end in any sort of suspense IMO. I think that Under the Dome is a better show.

That being said, I like the interaction with each of the characters, Jack is a decent character (for the most part), and I still want to watch more to see when or if it gets better. I am on the 4th episode of Day 2 and I just ordered the game to see how well that came out.

I maybe a bit late here, but hang in there. Difficult to go in to spoilers, but he does get more bad-ass as the seasons move on. Sure, they play around with his character in one or two seasons, but you'll always see him do cold and calculated things. By the time you reach season 8, you'll think this guy is a bad-ass. But then you see season 9 and you think: Jack Bauer can not be contained within the word bad-ass, FFS, wow.

[Psychospacecow]

I saw the first two episodes of that Bob's Burgers show. Can someone who's seen tell me if its indicative of the rest of the series?

[Carlos]

Was just watching America's Funniest Home Videos a couple hours ago. Is it bad that I don't find any of it funny?

[TheTrueBoss997]

Was just watching America's Funniest Home Videos a couple hours ago. Is it bad that I don't find any of it funny?

I think 80% is consisted of pets, babies and people getting themselves seriously hurt. It becomes repetitive after awhile.

[Mass Distraction]

Was just watching America's Funniest Home Videos a couple hours ago. Is it bad that I don't find any of it funny?

That show has actually been funny? At least it became bearable after Bob Saget left.

[Psychospacecow]

It kind of lost its soul when youtube became big. I mean, there really wasn't a point for a "funniest home videos" tv show if all their content was readily available without the filler and commercials.

[gamemaster1991]

It kind of lost its soul when youtube became big. I mean, there really wasn't a point for a "funniest home videos" tv show if all their content was readily available without the filler and commercials.

Not that youtube hasn't tried.

[Mass Distraction]

Then came the shows that mostly show just the best clips found on the internet. I find those entertaining and they save me the hours I'd otherwise waste looking for some actually good videos.

[gamemaster1991]

Then came the shows that mostly show just the best clips found on the internet. I find those entertaining and they save me the hours I'd otherwise waste looking for some actually good videos.

I believe Hex brought up a good point about those shows a while back. Shows that take clips off of the internet show really funny videos, but than mess them up by having some dumb ass make the same joke and just ruin them. The Star Wars kid was funny, but having someone go "Wow, what a nerd. Bet he has no idea the camera is on" just made me not like it any more.

Whats worse is that they get really funny people (and Daniel Tosh) to host these shows and make them less funny. How does that happen?

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Was just watching America's Funniest Home Videos a couple hours ago. Is it bad that I don't find any of it funny?

That show has actually been funny? At least it became bearable after Bob Saget left.

...But but... that was my favorite show ever...

[Hexadecimal*]

There's a body painting show on the Game Show network right now that I'm really enjoying. I just wish that one of the guys that's really skilled wasn't such an arrogant dick about it. If he wins he totally deserves it, but I really can't stand people with his personality.

So far the judges have made really good decisions about who should go home.

[Berry]

Last Friday, I argue to an acquaintance as to why King of the Hill is one of the best animation show to date.

Never thought i would have to do that in my life.

[Arjahn]

Can we all just step the fuck back and admire how great Legend of Korra was this season.
Book One was good, but it felt rushed and was generally underwhelming.
Book Two was mostly garbage with a small pile of greatness buried inside of it, nearly every episode made me want to stop watching, but I just never could.

Spoiler

But what about that Godzilla evil dark energy antichrist fight with avatar punches and Deus Ex Spirit World superpowers of light and sparklies, huh?

Book Three though, it was so good that I'm actually gonna use a spoiler tag for it's original purpose. So, spoilers ahead for all of The Legend of Korra, go watch book 3 seriously it's really good.

Spoiler

HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT GUYS DID YOU SEE BOOK THREE?
JESUS IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY ACTUALLY TOOK TIME TO WRITE A SCRIPT AND COMMUNICATE WITH THE ARTISTS OR SOMETHING CRAZY LIKE THAT.


God dammit this season was so enjoyable to watch, it recaptured the sense of adventure and excitement that the series has been sorely lacking up until now. Everything up to this point in LoK, aside from the Beginnings episodes which, while extraordinary steps up from the rest of the season, and a few sparse moments in the Season 1 finale, failed to increase the other episodes' quality, felt like Nerf Avatar. There were no steaks, balls or ribs to anything, it was like watching someone else play a shovelware videogame of a show you used to like. "Ok, let's take a few main characters and put them inside this area, we'll call it a "city", then have most of the gameplay consist of repetitive and unengaging magical dodgeball with a few short boss fights MMK?.


Book Three blew it out of the fucking water, in the first ten minutes we set up that there are actual Airbenders in the world now in a way that actually makes a little bit of sense. Thank god too, not a big fan of chancing Melo's chances to score or airbending incest, the only two other real alternatives to repopulation. I really love how they set up the villians, the Red Loutus, in this season. Instead of forcing down another "these guys are bad because they are bad and want to control the world aslo did we mention that they are bad?/THIS DUDE WANTS REVENGEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee", we have some developed villians with actual motivation that would make sense even in reality. I really like how they connected the harmonic convergence's effect on airbending to the villains as well, which ties in the entire seasons overarching theme of Change, which is neither inherently bad or inherently good. This
is such an enormous, welcome departure from Book 2 that it amazed me when it really started to piece together later. Sure, the fact that we have a chance to finally see a new air nation is amazing, but we also see new benders abusing the power, which we first see in Kai in the form of petty theft, but then later in Zaheer fucking asphixiating people.

Then they FINALLY tell Korra to get the f*ck out of the stupid city they've spent four years in, which is again an incredibly welcome change. They live in this amazing world scupted out of incredible abilities, and all we've seen is pretty much either a) spirit world, or b) HEY LOOK AT THIS INDUSTRIALIZED CITY THAT REALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BENDING BUT FUCK IT BLIMPS ARE COOL, RIGHT KIDS??!?1

We get to see Ba Sin Se, and enters one of the most important characters in the season, The Earth Queen.
When the show introduces her, we learn that she's a maniacal, corrupt and spoiled assface of a Tyrant who is drafting innocent people for a private army. When fans learned of Zaheers plans and motivations of anarchism, a lot of them were on his side. Every time the Earth Queen is on screen, we as an audience just want to punch her in the face, whether she's kidnapping party members or scamming the avatar or yelling at cute lil' animals, the show makes us want to kill her.

Then Zaheer shows up and He Fucking Does.

She was a terrible person, no doubt about it, but remember that in the original show, Ozai's line committed genocide and Aang still couldn't kill him because of his Airbending ideals. Now we see an airbender show up and murder a tyrant in seconds. This whole brilliant scene sets up just how nuts Zaheer is and how different his ideals are from Aangs, even though they both followed the same people.

The book doesn't hold back and keeps you hooked with its brutality, and I love it for that. After Long live the Queen, I seriously thought that Tenzin was going to die. His whole "My last breath" line at the end of the episode was really numming.


Ok I just spent a good half hour typing that out, now I just gotta squeel about some of the highlights quick.

Spoiler

Revisiting the Great Desert was awesome and the whole airship subplot was genius, we got to see Asami being incredibly resourceful instead of just standing around or doing "business thing x" like in Book 2, the guards as actual people with their own decision making skills, Korra put her light metalbending knowledge to actual use, the handless captain being handless, and finally they remember that their world has GIGANTIC LAND FISH IN IT. Seriously Aang, why didn't you bend some river of Unagi into the fire nation and just get it over with?
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Zaofu is Zao-Coo.

I loved seing how a new form of bending revolutionized the world in such little time, moreso then just hookshot cops.
Also TOPH MIGHT STILL BE KINDA ALIVE HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT

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Zaheer vs. Tenzin was arguably the most well choreographed fight in the entire series. We get to see how Zaheer, a relative novice, views airbending as an extension of himself, using it to strengthen punches and kicks, while Tenzin views is as part of himself, using it to attack, defend and maneuver at the same time. We also get to see that Zaheer isn't just some arbitrarily-Omega powereful Airbender, he's not a god or anything and this is a refreshing reminder. The fight also pumps up the audiences hatred of sparky sparky boom lady, who turns the tides from afar while Tenzin was holding his own against three benders. Of course later her head explodes and we get a nice sense of satisfaction.


Oh yeah and threatening to slice open Opal's neck instead of another random airbender or one of Tenzin's family was a nice touch, I wish more shows and movies did that, allow for the audience to reconnect with a character through peril while not overdoing it or using extras/bystanders. I'm looking at you Dark Knight.
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My only real complaint about the season, aside from a few nitpicks, is that Bolin's lavabending seemed kinda unnecessary. It was cool, don't get me wrong, but it helped him in one fight and escaping a tunnel, plus we don't see much of an explanation on its sudden appearance other than adrenaline. I dunno, I don't really even have a problem with it, just a minor nitpick.

It was a fantastic season, on par with Book 3 of the original and better than Book 1 of the original. 32/5

[Carlos]

I started watching American Ninja Warrior a few weeks ago. Or "Sasuke" if you're not from America. Only thing is that everyone has to show their six pack.